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troo

troo is the nonstandard spelling of true.

Meaning of true

Adjective

true (comparative truer or more true, superlative truest or most true)

  1. Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
    • This is a true story.
    Synonyms:
    factual, real
    1. As an ellipsis of "(while) it is true (that)", used to start a sentence
      • True, I have only read part of the book, but I like it so far.
  2. Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
    • a true copy
  3. Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
    • "A and B" is true if and only if "A" is true and "B" is true.
  4. Loyal, faithful.
    • He’s turned out to be a true friend.
  5. Genuine; legitimate; valid; sensu stricto.
    • The true king has returned!

See all 23 meanings of true

Origin of troo

A respelling of true, substituting the common English digraph ‘oo’ (o͞o) for ‘ue’.

Words formed from troo

Questions about troo

What is troo the nonstandard spelling of?
Troo is the nonstandard spelling of true.

Words near troo in the dictionary

  1. tronies
  2. tronk
  3. tronks
  4. Tronna
  5. trons
  6. troo
  7. troodontid
  8. troodontids
  9. troof
  10. troofs
  11. trooly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: troo (page history and authors); true (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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